The first step in a MicroStrategy BI application is creating an empty project. An Intelligence Server can host many projects. Projects can be copied from one Intelligence Server to another. Think of a project as a way to keep all the related objects together. A project must have at least one connection to get data from the data warehouse.
In this first recipe we'll create a project:
Administrator
and the corresponding password and right-click on the topmost folder named MicroStrategy Analytics Modules.COOKBOOK
and click on OK. We accept all the defaults for now. Once the wizard terminates creating the project, you're back to the Project Creation Assistant.A project is nothing more than rows in a table of the metadata. If you're curious, you can have a look at the metadata database with sqlcmd
, the main table is called DSSMDOBJINFO
. Be careful not to tamper with it, you may lose a little more than one hour of work.
If you're not happy with the project name, you may change it with the F2 key just like renaming a file or a folder.
Just out of curiosity, if you want to see more behind-the-scene objects, you can click on the Tools | Desktop Preferences menu and select the Browsing category in the Desktop Preferences dialog.
Check the Display hidden objects box, this will show more folders that were not visible before, such as the profiles or the project templates.